Later that night, right before going to bed, I ate a banana, after eating a sandwich with a glass of milk about half-an-hour before. I go to bed, feeling very confident that I will have a dream tonight, after reading up on the subject for about 3 hours and eating nutrients that might help with the process.
I lay down with the intention of doing a MILD, and I start off doing so, but then I when I think that I can try a WILD, because I’m actually counting something and telling myself that I’m dreaming, I start counting, imagining I’m walking down stairs, with each step counting as a number, and reminding myself that I will dream, then wake up and remember my dream. This continues for about 10 mins, and then I start to feel as though the room is shaking. I tell myself that I must be starting the 1st stage of sleep, because my eyes must be starting to roll. This is weird though, because I was still conscious. Another couple of minutes after, I guess I must have entered the 2nd stage, because the room stopped moving, or at least it felt like it. This is when I think I start to see hypogonic images, but I only see 2 in all. The first was a kinda faded picture of a kitchen. The next was extremely clear and close-up picture of a PS2 controller, with it being tilted and the center of the image focused on the “select” and “start” buttons. Only a second after seeing the image, I discover that I’m beginning to dream! I become excited! I wasn’t even thinking of this, but it makes sense that it would show up because i had played PS2 with my friend for 2 hours that day, so…
Anyway, this is when I get mad . When I see the very clear PS2 controller, I try to focus in on it and pretend like I’m holding it in my hand, in the kitchen. But I realize that my heart is beating very fast now, and I loose my concentration, and the image is lost
. I open my eyes, and just wondered what the hell had happened. Then I go back to sleep, but I never thought of the controller again (I really should have, and now I realize I could have changed the process into MILD and probably had my first lucid dream
). I end up waking up every 3 or 4 hours later throughout the night, not with an alarm clock, but because I am sick now. I never recalled any dreams that night except for the 2 images.
Did I go straight from the 2nd stage of sleep, during using WILD, straight through a very fast 3rd, 4th, and onto the 5th stage of sleep? It seems probable. Did I get close to finishing the WILD technique? I don’t know. I didn’t bother to write this down in my journal either, because I don’t consider it a real dream. I hope I’m more successful tonight using MILD.